"The United States now has more prison inmates……" — Eric Schlosser
"The United States now has more prison inmates than full-time farmers."
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35 Quotes by Eric Schlosser
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Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century--a set of attitudes,…
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A generation ago, three-quarters of the money used to buy food in the United States was spent to prepare meals…
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Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice…
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The market is a tool, and a useful one. But the worship of this tool is a hollow faith. Far…
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The executives who run the fast food industry are not bad men. They are businessmen. They will sell free-range, organic,…
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In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food; in 2000, they spent more than $110 billion. Americans now…
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The industry doesn’t want you to know the truth about what you’re eating, because if you knew, you might not…
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Marijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that…
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What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the…
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Yes, a cheeseburger and fries is probably my favourite meal. But I don't eat ground beef anymore.
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The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross.
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If the market does indeed embody the sum of all human wishes, then the secret ones are just as important…
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More Farmers Quotes
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one of 558 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I'm a farmer now, and it's fantastic. My goal is to be totally self-sufficient and grow everything that I eat.…
— Roseanne Barr
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If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?
— Tom Barrett
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights…
— Saint Basil
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be…
— Wendell Berry
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I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.
— Bjork
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In Vegas, you have an audience you can't find anywhere else. It's from all over the country. You play Seattle,…
— Lewis Black
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While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
— Giovanni Boccaccio
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I am but one member of a vast team made up of many organizations, officials, thousands of scientists, and millions…
— Norman Borlaug
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I would like to see people more aware of where their food comes from. I would like to see small…
— Anthony Bourdain
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My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small…
— Anthony Bourdain
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When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer…
— Jerry Brown
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Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up…
— Luke Bryan
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